Chinese symbol for “celery”
芹菜
qín cài
celery (Apium graveolens)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for celery is 芹菜 (qín cài), defined as: celery (Apium graveolens).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “celery”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 芹菜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欧芹 (歐芹) | ōu qín | parsley (Petroselinum sativum) |
| 西芹 | xī qín | celery; parsley |
| 孜然芹 | zī rán qín | cumin |
| 刺芹菇 | cì qín gū | king trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii) |
| 大星芹 | dà xīng qín | great masterwort (Astrantia major) |
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
| 菜单 (菜單) | cài dān | menu; measure word: 份 (fèn), 张 (zhāng) |
| 菜肴 (菜餚) | cài yáo | vegetable and meat dishes; dish |
See also: Japanese symbol for “celery”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.